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SKEETA 

A WIRE HAIRED EOXTERRIER 

BY 

MARIAN KING 

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ILLUSTRATED BY 
DOROTHY C. BOWDEN 


PUBLISHED BY 

ALBERT WHITMAN * CO ^ CHICAGO 
1933 



COPYRIGHT ^ 1933 


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ALBERT WHITMAN & CO ^ CHICAGO 



©CIA 67162 

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF 

NOV 15 1933 


AMERICA 

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DEDICATED TO 
MUMMY K 
CAROLINE B 

and 

DADDY K who 
gave me SKIPPY K 
my own wire haired 
foxterrier pup 

















































































I am a wire haired fox+errier pup. 

My name is Skee+a 






I have a mistress. 

Her name is Pa+sie Jean. 






I have many play toys. 

I sleep in a big basket-- 











I like to lie on my back 










One afternoon Patsie Jean and I went with 


Nurse to the park to sai I a boat Dollie went.too, 










I never did like Dollie 









































Pa+s ie Jean and I went over to the pond. 






Patsie J ean took Dollie with her__ 










Nurse sal on a bench and knitted. 


Nurse kept an eye on us 
















Patsie Jean said,"Oh Skeeta! Let's pat 
Dollie in the boat She can have a i<ide!l __ 

1W\AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAA/I 




















I just picked up my ears,cocked my head 
to one side, and listened, A soft wind 

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was blowing. I watched Patsie Jean 
put her favorite dollie in the sail boat. 

A A. A AAAlAAi 












Patsie Jean loosened the string that was 
tied to her sail boat__ 

^±±*mAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAi 

















A small boy was sailing his boat near 
Patsie Jeans. The wind was getting 











stronger. 

The boats hit one another- 








Poor Dollie! First she fell to one side of the 
boat, then she tumbled into the pond. 







Pats’ie Jean called to Nurse 






Nurse came running to Patsie Jean 














But Dollie si-ill floated around with 
her face downward in the water- 


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AAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAi 


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Nurse got a long stick 


















But the stick was not long enough. 


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Nurse pushed and pushed the stick out 
into the water But it did not reach Dollie. 


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Patsie Jean started to cry "Oh, my dear 
dear dollie! I shall never see her again. 


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I loved Patsie Jean. 

I did not like to see her cry. 

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I did not like Dollie. 

I did not like the water. 










Whaf should I do? 










I would just have to swim out and get Dollie. 
That was a 11 there was for me todo__ 
















I jumped in. 

Br-r-r! How cold the water felt. 


Iaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaaaaaaa,« 


















I reached Dollie. I picked her up by the arm. 
Then I swam with her between my teeth 

^ A AAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaaaai 







toward the shore. Nurse took Dol lie from me. 
Then Patsle Jean stooped and hugged me. 





Why PatsieJean’ exclaimedNurse,"Look at your 
clothes .They are soaking wet. you'll catch a cold. 








We shall have to go home this minute'.' No one 
thought of me. I was soaking wet and shivering. 

\AAAAAA AAAA AAZv\AAV\AAAAAAAAA^ 






But I rolled over and over on the grass and 
shook myself while Nurse scolded_ 


i^AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A AAAAAA 






By the time we reached home I was nearly 
dry as the sun was shining brighfly__ 








Then Patsie Jean was bathed and dressed. 












































When Patsie Jean’s mother came home 
Patsle Jean told her all that had happened. 




Mother said,”Skeeta is a brave dog. He will 
have to have a nice steak bone for his supper 






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I tried to run under the bed and hide. 



















But Nurse caught hold of me 


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I was bathed for the second time that day _ 






Dollie was hung on the clothes line in the 
back yard to dry_ 


















Poor little Dollie...I really did feel sorry 
for her. After all she was only a dollie- 


>AAAAAAAAAA^AA AAA AAAAAAAAAAi 





The reward was worth it I got the juicy steak 
bone tor my supper_ 







As I chewed on my bone in the back yard. 






I looked up at Dollie on the clothesline - 

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AAAJLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAi 







Poor Doll ie did not look I ike the dollie that went" 
with us to the park.Her face was all white,her 









hair that was always curly was now long and stringy. 
Patsie Jean rode up and down the walk on her scooter. 















I looked at Patsie Jean 

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Then I looked at my own back.lt was clean and white. 
It was curly too, And the black spots were still there. 





1 began to think it was notso bad after all 
being j ust a wire haired foxterrier pup when 



you have a nice juicy steak bone... and 





you pleased your mistress 










But-two baths a day - I think are far too 
many for any pup_ 








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